AIBU to not understand what people mean by "screaming" at somebody?

[Titsywoo]

Do they mean shouting? Shouting in a really high-pitched voice? Literally screaming at another person?

Or roaring. I see it on here so much, and I just picture a lion roaring!

To be honest, I haven't really noticed it being overused on here but probably as others say it's just being exaggerated for literary effect.

Screaming to me is high pitch up in your face. Like a neighbour who constantly screams at her 5 DC or screams in the face of any parent who's DC upset any of her DC.
I haven't had the experience with her other than having the hear the witch Yet

I imagine it as high-pitched, somewhat hysterical shouting.

Bit late to the party, but the poor Year 5 boy!. Year 5 is not long before most will be walking or bussing to school the whole way on their own if they aren't already. I feel for teachers with some of the parents they have to deal with!

It's hyperbole.

Screaming is what happens just before the crying and falling to the floor.

The problem with posts like this is that you know that the screaming/crying/falling to the floor bit is exaggerated shite and that makes me very sceptical about the truth of the rest of the post.

Oh come on - people exaggerate other people's behaviour all the time in order to get the sympathy/backing they want from their audience. It's hardly confined to MN, though it does happen on here a lot.

In real terms, shouting is using a very loud voice, usually out of fear, urgency, anger or aggression. Screaming is similarly loud, but high-pitched and sometimes wordless. It conveys terror or anger involving either a real loss of control or a desire to give that impression.

Presumably you know all of that really though, OP. This is one of those frequent MN 'criticise a behaviour that pisses me of, by disingenuously claiming to be baffled by it' threads.